MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 21, 16 January 1878, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

As tJiore baro apparently been .atjtvnf; number of cuscs of hydrophobia lately, nnd there is nt present, eodninly no known remedy, or oven supposed remedy lor Mine nwfnl disease, it is worlh mentionioc: flint Mr liiporto' writes to Tuesday's Times from JKHcdale Park, Son (h port, to describe n case, dating from three yems buck in which a Coolie bitten by n mad doir n(H curod, sixty days after the bite, nti<l Apparently in the wor<t, spasms of tlmfriuhtlul timlndy, by hnvinu an infusion <>f diil urn slrnmonium, the snurn leaves which nsthmntic piltienta smoke for their aMlim i —administered to him. A lisindful of tho leaves were, boiled in n pint nf water, till ♦ hey hnd shruhk to one-half their ori"in.'il bulk, nnd tho witter when slriinod oH'wnx poured down his thront. After a violent, paroxysm, n profuso perspiration en me on — tho coolie then sunk into n deep sleep, which Instod oiehfc hours-, and when In awoke their wns no sum of t!ie disease. The cure, Mr Laporto thinks, was duo to perspiration, ns in nno'her eve wl\ieli ho saw previous to tho poriod of this <'ix«\ tlio chief symptom, which vapour hxths wen* in vim tried lo cure, wns Hie excessive! v parallel :»nd dry eondili'ii of the s!<in. if would 1,0 nt least worlh vrhile f.ir our medical men to try nny alleged vemed\for n di-ienM* which is at present supposed ti be ineurnhlo. Tho pT'in for whi«>h Fftther Ins. ifc is said, be^n expelled tie ()r<ler of.Fosiis wn3 a broml one. ITe rvonimentled (ho Popr. in a loiter ndlressvl pers.uinlly to In's Holiness, to roeoneile himself with Tf.nJv, on condition tt int Catholicism should he mado Mie sole religion of the Stn(e ; t'uit the Kinc sh'^tld l>o eon^eornted by the Pope, n.s reeeivinu lih power from (r vl nnd int. from the people; that tho IVpo Onnhl have power effectively to veto any In, contrary in his judi mwil, to religion or moralit". nnd t'-at; the enndilions of I'ome shoolil be s^» ultered that he <o"' I reside then it a dignified forereiun — '' »" I is, ns most, persons interpret i», free front the. rivalry of the sofwlnr (lorrrnmen 1 -, This let lor wis pronounced by fie Po 10 "tin impor»Mi"nee," but ir in more t't^'ti n^.«fi hie »l nt tho sentence wis not "'itlen in ensen'ieio' of the advice. T?it!rr Cnrci ji'hled comments on tlio-e who snrpound the Pone, nnd misuse his infiilli'>ihili''\ wliteh (bus is voTnced ton doe<Mit : o-i. \n inl'nlliblo Pon'ifT. who is told f 1 at his infnliilvliiy is nhusrcl. is by implication Hd thnt lie is not infallible — which l?u> I M <o, like 01 y other di<rnifiocl olerjjj'mm of his vots, does not li l- e. The special correst ond »nt. «f tho T'^es nt Rom rt ciro n enrif us sketch of the Cirilinnls likely to lie of conso(|U<nee ft tho next Pnpnl cle % 'i-in. The most inft icntinl nre^s'id to bo Die Potro. t\ J{.omnn «ob'o of 72, noted fir extrnVicnnee; Do Luen, n learned Siei'ii n, »ioss«iMy timje'V NcitU fjihori-lism ; Alert el, n " nati'o of A Ibis rnioro," n jurist, 71 yonrs old, nnd " ono of lhe wisest nnd most moleM'e men of tho Snerod (^olleue ," nnd iVinn, n Koman of modernte spirit nnd incline! ro eompro* mise, Cardinal Bonaparte, wi h n rent » Intion for ability, Tins since the fall of tho Fnrond Kmp'fo kept nlmost enh'rclv out ofsiizht; whilst Chitjl is n dii)lomntist, intent on correspondence with tho erent r but believed to desiro tho Papal Throne. Pecci, tho Cnmorlenno, is n Rornnn of fi7. blnmless nnd moderntc ; whilst his immediate rivnl, Pnnebinneo, considered in many qunrtors tho most probnblo r.f nil cnnrlidatcs, is lield in Romo to ho n monk obstinate, bloomy, nnd fnnnticnl, with n fotnper hardened by slcoplessni 9s, which in him nm innts to a disenso. Theso sketches, it should bo understood, only profess to represent popular opinion in Pome, where tho hnd qualities of n Cnr«* rlinnl, whoso character mny bo n t»ood ono on the whole, nro very onrofully noted. Thnt habit will co.ise by»nnd-hv, nowtbnt tho fnvor or wrnth of n. Onrdinal no longer brines nny ono mntcrial ndrantngo or dolriment. A. Turkish newspaper say 8 Mio Zomur nnd Bassiret, has discovered thnt ATr Glndstono is the son of a Hitlsarinn pii»denler named Trozndin, nnd thnt ho ]\]\\u eolf was a piflt dealer in early lifo, and ran nwny to Servin, at tho ore of sixteen, whenco ho was sent to London to sell pit's ; that \\a stolo the proceeds, changed his name from Trozulin to Gladstone, and became Primo Ministor ; fiunllv. that ho was offered fivo thousand pounds by thoOttoman Government to put thoir finances in order, nnd that tho withdrawnl of thooffer vexed him so much ns to embark his bad ftulgirinn nature in his anli -Turkish policy* Aud uo doubt tho Turks bclieva

" ~ ~™~ „ tho legend invented 1,0 gratify their fury. Tho Dunedin Star remark* that it ia dtilto'l that tho work ot retrenchment which Sir George Grey and bin Oollongtiofi havo cxprofiHod their inlcntion of carrying out, iH to bo begun oh noon an possihlo aftor tho Premier rot.tirns to Wollin^t'in, nnnioly, early in J.mnniy. It in further stated (unyHtho Ai'Uuk) tlml. tho raduolion will bo nuido ohicfly in the. Publin WorlfH Dopnrtmont. Ah fnr a« wo can nncortnin,, no elmngo.i nro to hn inado in tho Treasury or Tologmph Doparhmnntft, but it, v probuhlo that Several of tho other oilmen will suffor.